PRODUCTION SYSTEMS OF ORANGE-FLESHED SWEET POTATO (CLONE IAC-1063) AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE LANDSCAPE IN THE AGROECOSYSTEM OF GUILAZE (MOZAMBIQUE)
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Agricultura FamiliarAbstract
In Mozambique, agricultural activity occupies more than 75% of the population who live in both rural areas (family and commercial agriculture) and urban areas (practiced in the form of home gardens, gardening and decoration of roads and public squares). This activity has contributed to suppressing the problems of hunger, chronic malnutrition and poverty, through the production of food and supply of raw materials, flow of biodiversity, promoting ecosystem services and simultaneously participating in the maintenance and degradation of landscapes. The study aimed to analyze the production systems of orange-fleshed sweet potatoes (Clone IAC-1063) in the transformation of the landscape of the Guilaze agroecosystem, based on the environmental perception approach. The study is exploratory and qualitative, conducted in the form of a case study. Interviewees were selected through snowballing and data collected through interviews, direct observation, meetings held with farmers in the Guilaze agroecosystem and complemented with secondary data analysis. The results show that the production systems adopted are of two types: intercropping and monoculture cultivation, with both systems using the crop rotation technique. It is evident that agriculture does little to maintain (the original landscapes) of agroecosystems, highlighting the practice of monoculture and removal of vegetation cover, contributing to the transformation of the landscape of the Guilaze agroecosystem into non-multifunctional agricultural landscapes, not adding the functions of production, commodity, and non-commodity.
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